We regularly have current Essex students working for the Network as Frontrunners or Frontrunners Plus, and sometimes also independently. Students currently working for the Network are;

Doriane Hardy
Doriane has an LLB in Law and Human Rights from the University of Essex and is currently studying for an LLM in International Human Rights Law. Her undergraduate studies gave her an insight into different areas of human rights, and transitional justice was one of particular interest, so she is currently taking this module for her LLM. She is hoping to write her dissertation on transitional justice. Doriane feels that working for the Network is a great opportunity to develop to learn more about transitional justice issues from different disciplines.

Alvaro Amaya
Alvaro is a Colombian solicitor. He has an LLB in Law and a BA in History from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) and is currently studying for an LLM in International Human Rights Law (Economic Relations) at the University of Essex. He has advised government institutions, victims of human rights violations and private institutions in international human rights law and international law litigation. He also has modules on history of the law, public international law and international human rights law. In this context he has addressed several transitional justice issues, in particular in relation to the obligation to investigate, prosecute, and, when applicable, punish the perpetrators of human rights violations and the right to know truth. Alvaro thinks that the ETJN is a priceless opportunity to get involved in the current transitional justice debates and to be connected with other professionals working on such fields all over the world.

Tatiana Sanchez

Tatiana studied anthropology at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá-Colombia and has a Masters degree in Social Anthropology from the same university. She is currently studying an MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights at Essex University. Since her interests have been focused on medical anthropology, violence and memory and community empowerment, she is now working on how national reconciliation is a collective paradigm of healing. As part of these reflections, she is writing her dissertation on the situation of children born of war rape in the aftermath of conflict. Tatiana believes that working for the ETJN is very enriching as it allows her to approach different aspects a society faces after setting peace-agreements or after the end of oppressive regimes.

Previous frontrunners include

Rafael Charris

Sofie Johansen

Gill Surfleet

Dicle Uca